This is an analysis of the poem The Habitants Summer that begins with:

O, who can blame de winter, never min'
de hard he 's blowin' ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXX cadaXaea fgcfcgdf cXccXXcc XhiXahbX hXffjXXX XXckaXak faXhXXch gXaflXdf fkeiXkei Xilclgkc hmkicmkX cXgfdXcX fXccagac fakjeaXj bXXXgaXk kaXiXXmi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 011110 11010101101 11 011111001010 10 11011101101 01 10111100110 1010 10001110111 10101 1011111010 1110010 10101111011 11101 1110111101 11110 10111010111 1101 101100001011 1010 11101010111 10101 11101101110 1111010 111111010 11001 1111110111 0111010 11111110101 0101 1010101011 01011 10110101111 0111 1111101110 111011 1110101111110 1 111111101111 1111 1111111111 10101 1101011111101 011 100111011110 10 111011001001 11010 11111111 101111 1011101010101 010 101011110101 1101 1001010101111 101110 111000100100 11 101110111 100010 11101011010 10101 101010101010 10110 1011111101 010101 101011010111 1110 111101111111 111101 10111010111 11110 1111010001010 111 1101110101010 1110 101010101101 0101 10101010011101 011 101011110101 0101 111100101010 1010 111101010101 1101 101011010101 11110 11101110111 1101 111111010110 11110 11001011101 10 10111101110 111111 1011101010 10101 10101110101 101011 10111111010 110 11011101011 111010 10111001101 1101 1110111101 1111010 11100010101 11101 1110101001100 110 11011111101 11 1111101111 111010 0110111010101 01 1101011110110 11111 1011101010 11100 111010101110 1110 1101010111010 1 1111111111 1011110 11101110100 111 11101011010 1010 1011101110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, her, we, 're, an' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.

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